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Using Vista computer with GoGo6 tunnel as a router?
Now that I have a tunnel setup between my Vista laptop and Freenet6, is there some way I can now configure windows Vista to act as a router, making IPv6 available to the rest of my local network? Right now my WiFi adapater does NOT have an IPv6 address - just the virtual tunnel adapter (Local Area Connection 2). I presume I'd need to configure the WiFi Adapter with an address using the network prefix assigned to the tunnel? Is there someway to get Vista to use Stateless Autoconfig to assign the Wifi adapter it's address automatically?
I just noticed, my tunnel does not have a delegated prefix, when I was poking around in the GoGoClient. I also noticed an option in the "Advanced" settings to enable "Routing Advertisements", which I did (then reconnected), and I now have a delegated prefix. Since I am authenticated to Freenet6, will my delegated prefix remain static forever?
Does the GoGoClient actually configure Windows to route traffic when you enable routing advertisements, or does the GoGoClient just take care of the adverts, but I have to do something to enable routing between the two interfaces (that is, the WiFi interface and the virtual tunnel adapter)? Will the Vista Firewall take care of firewalling incoming traffic in-bound on the IPv6 interface destined to *any* host on my network, or does it only firewall the traffic actually addressed to my machine?
I just noticed, my tunnel does not have a delegated prefix, when I was poking around in the GoGoClient. I also noticed an option in the "Advanced" settings to enable "Routing Advertisements", which I did (then reconnected), and I now have a delegated prefix. Since I am authenticated to Freenet6, will my delegated prefix remain static forever?
Does the GoGoClient actually configure Windows to route traffic when you enable routing advertisements, or does the GoGoClient just take care of the adverts, but I have to do something to enable routing between the two interfaces (that is, the WiFi interface and the virtual tunnel adapter)? Will the Vista Firewall take care of firewalling incoming traffic in-bound on the IPv6 interface destined to *any* host on my network, or does it only firewall the traffic actually addressed to my machine?
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Permalink Reply by Carl Holzhauer on -
I asked this same question the other day...Take a look at the last reply here
http://gogonet.gogo6.com/forum/topics/requesting-a-56
I haven't had a chance to try this on my end, but since you're enabling "RA", I would imagine that GoGo6 would take care of the routing for you too (by design, RA tells the computer what the default IPv6 gateway is) Your Vista machine should take care of passing the traffic to the Internet, because at this point your computer is a router, and would know about both destinations because they're directly connected.
Re the firewall...again, I haven't tried this, but since all IPv6 traffic destined for other hosts on your network MUST pass through your Vista machine, it should do the firewalling (it does happen this way with other tunnel brokers, so I'm pretty sure it'll happen with GoGo6 too)
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Permalink Reply by Jeff S. on -
Hey thanks. Sounds like I should be routing now. It's sort of an academic question at the moment, since my laptop is the only computer on my network - the only other device I have is a T-Mobile G1 phone, which I believe does not have IPv6 support, although I'm about to test it. . .
Well, the phone itself doesn't tell you what IP address(es) it is using, so I tried using the built-in browser to hit ipv6.google.com, but could not reach it, so I guess IPv6 isn't working - although I don't know if that's because of the phone, or the laptop isn't routing.
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